A coin trick done without coins, or a card trick done without regular playing cards. However you want to look at it - a pretty unusual trick.
You show four cards each with a quarter printed on its face. One by one the quarters vanish and reappear on one card which now has four quarters on it. The card is left on a spectator's palm and, while there, it changes into a card with a dollar coin on it.
[Note that you will receive a PDF and a video, but NO cards. The PDF includes a photo of the custom card faces, but you will have to make the cards yourself using stickers, transfers, hand-drawn or printing. You will need two double facers and three blank faced cards to start with.]
1st edition 2000, DVD 2012; PDF 3 pages, video length 5 min 46 s....
The magician shows two cards: a regular picture card and a blank face one. The magician stacks the cards on top of each other and the card with the picture visually turns white. After the effect, both cards can be examined by the spectator. Includes a bonus idea by Zaw Shinn. Gimmick requires arts and crafts and some supplies you may not have at home.
... for Coin Thru Table that requires an insane amount of preparation and probably will be performed by very few people.
BUNCO BRANCHING MATRIX
A "carnival game" using invisible dice that ends with a prediction of the "randomly" arrived at prize
CAVEMAN CATALOG
A presentation for Magic Age Cards
555-HOLLYWOOD
A presentation for an Annemann effect that has similar roots to Magic Age Cards
HAUNTED HOUSE HALLOWEEN HORROR
A card effect utilizing 52 blank faced cards that now have different words written upon them. There are many directions this effect can take, but the main...
A mentalism effect, also possible at a distance (in video chat or just on the telephone), in which you will incredibly succeed to guess, at the end of the experiment, where the card thought by the spectator is found among four ones freely chosen by him, even though you will never see the cards and never know if he decided to lie or not when answering the three simple questions you will ask him.
Key points:
Simple and fun to perform in any situation, including remote phone call
It does not require any memory effort
A visual and immediate method always allows the performer to identify...
The mentalist invites four spectators for a drawing experiment. Three of them are asked to draw while the fourth spectator acts as a medium between the mentalist and the other three spectators. The mentalist is able to identify the owner of the drawings, including the chosen drawing of the fourth spectator, and then finally, the mentalist demonstrates his skill in drawing duplication.
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Inevitability: A prediction is openly placed on the table. The spectator truly shuffles a packet of ESP cards then (without the mentalist ever touching the packet) deals them out onto the table stopping whenever they want. The prediction, of course, is correct. The spectator's choice is truly a free choice.
Extra Sensory Pendulum: The mentalist finds the spectator's thought of ESP card with a pendulum....
Here's what your audience sees: You take a stack of business cards and show them on both sides then hand one to a volunteer to draw a picture, write a word, print a number, or even write a question, there are no restrictions. The stack is turned blank side up and their card dropped drawing side down on top. It is then fairly cut to the center where it remains reversed in the middle at all times.
Even under these conditions you can get a full card peek, reveal the information and yet still show their card reversed in the center whenever you wish.
Join me as I continue to share with you my personal collection of mentalism effects and routines from the past decade and a half or so.
In Volume Three you'll find a wide variety of routines, including effects with ESP cards, Tarot cards, and themes relating to fate, dreams, celebrity crushes, jellybeans (yep, jellybeans!) and a whole bunch more.
Plus, you'll get full access to a custom web app that lets you create your own forcing matrix along with an anagram generator, and a couple of other goodies including printouts of one of the props you'll need.
The spectator names a Poker hand. He can change his mind. The deck is spread face down and the five cards for the named hand are the only face-up cards. The deck is squared and spread again: the face-up cards have vanished. For the kicker, the deck is spread face up and all the cards are blank. It was all an illusion.
Uses a special gaffed deck you can easily make at home. No sleights. No memorization. Idiot proof. Automatic reset. No angles. Killer kicker.
A slot machine prediction using three decks of cards.
Three decks of cards in their card box are piled up on the table in front of three spectators. The magician is about to show the spectators why he is not welcome in casinos anymore. Each spectator is asked to pick a different suit (free choice) and is given a deck that they shuffle. Then, the magician removes from each deck the cards of the suit chosen by the spectator without changing their order. At the end, three face-up piles are displayed in a row on the table. The magician explains that the piles represent the spinning reels of...
Effect: The magician shows the spectator a unique deck of cards, each bearing a different word. The spectator riffle shuffles the deck. The magician turns away as the spectator takes the top five cards and creates a sentence using those words on the cards. Different sentences can be created by the spectator. Without asking any questions, the magician reveals the exact sentence created by the spectator.
Unlock the power of words with Gilbreath with Words - amaze your audience with your knowledge of the future!
Gilbreath with Words is a powerful and baffling effect that will leave your...
Hypnotic Monte is a fantastic approach to the classic "Three Card Monte" especially designed for mentalists or magicians that are searching for a magical moment beyond deception or trickery.
As the title suggests, this "Find the Lady" approach uses apparent hypnosis to experience the confusion of not following the money card, in this case, using the colors of the backs as "different card". You don't need to know hypnosis at all to do this piece but if you know how to hypnotize someone, you will find in here a tremendous entertaining induction.
Master's ACAAN looks exactly like described below:
You place a pack of cards in full view. The audience decides on a card and names a number. You remove the cards from the box, deal down to that number, and there it is — their card at their number. But wait, that's not the end...
You reveal that it had to be that exact card at that exact number — any change would have resulted in complete failure. Because, apart from their card at their number, all the other cards are blank.
No switches. No sleights. Just one pack of 52 cards.
The mentalist shows cards representing five drinking establishments and their signature drink, such as Martini or Old Fashioned. The cards are placed face up on a table on stage. The mentalist now invites three random spectators to join him on stage and explains they will play the parts of folks embarking on an imaginary pub crawl.
Because nobody knows how wild this night is going to get, each participant will select a fake ID under which they'll do their drinking. Three cards are shown, each bearing a different humorous name, and mixed face down and given to the participants. The mentalist...
Step into the private workshop of Jack Chanin - Philadelphia's "Man With the Magic Hands" - with From the Private Files of Chanin, a curated collection of some of his most ingenious, deceptive, and surprisingly simple magical miracles. This isn't just another magic book - it's a vault of forgotten treasures, meticulously transcribed from Chanin's original instruction sheets, many of which baffled even his fellow magicians. Inside, you'll find 27 astonishing effects with cards, silks, ropes, eggs, coins, and everyday objects - including his legendary "Rip-It" (torn-and-restored bill), the mind-bending...
"PANACEA is wonderful... it's a very strong piece of work and one that I've been using quite a bit as of recently, thank you again for that!" - Jerome Finley
"Panacea - f***ing awesome! (Quote me!)" - R. Lee
The reader invites the sitter to write a detailed question on a blank index card or business card. A security envelope or coin envelope is initialed by the sitter, and the question is sealed inside the initialed envelope. It is kept by the sitter, never to be touched by the reader again.
An A.C.A.A.N. in which everything was already planned!
An amazing prediction trick in which a spectator freely chooses a card from which an experiment will begin, guided by the deck itself to lead to a predetermined outcome. Based on the "A.C.A.A.N." theme, made self-working thanks to a new stack: "Tricolor".
After introducing a deck of cards and shuffling it, the illusionist hands it to a spectator to cut and complete as he wishes. Meanwhile, he places a blank card on the table and announces that the back of the card contains a Prediction of what will happen shortly.
4. A NEW 20TH CENTURY SILKS: Two spectators are given a red and a blue silk handkerchief, which they place inside a cone. The magician then vanishes a yellow silk and reveals it inside the cone, now mysteriously tied in a chain between the other two silks.
5. CARDS AND A BOOK: A spectator holds a book while three freely chosen cards (a 7, 10, and 6) are placed inside the cone. The cards' values total 23, and when the book is opened to that page, the three cards are found inside the book, while the cone contains the torn-out page from the book.
A special surprise gift worth $18 is included inside.
Here FCK Peek stands for Folded Card Killer Peek. What did you think?
No gimmicks, no DIY, no wallets – nothing is needed for this peek. Just get a bunch of double blank business cards, a pen and you are set to perform this truly killer peek. There is also no set up required, no sleights and no moves. This is as easy as easy can get and yet extremely deceptive and powerful.
A participant secretly writes a name, number, place, drawing or literally anything on a card and folds in half. This folded card is now pushed cleanly and...
A collection of miniature stage illusions using playing cards.
Still more miniature stage illusions from the critically acclaimed "I Hate Card Tricks" series. Volume 3 features effects based on both classic and contemporary stage illusions.
This hard-to-find e-book is once again available for purchase. Contains instructions for constructing and performing 12 illusions, plus a tutorial on printing custom cards.
The Aztec Queen
This effect is based on the "Aztec Lady" illusion. A Queen is placed into a playing card cabinet. She can be clearly seen through windows in the front of...
... The mentalist never sees what initials are written. Each spectator is thanked and handed a business card. You ask each spectator if she minds revealing to the audience the initials she wrote on the post. In any case, the initials written by each spectator are printed on the back of the business cards they now hold.
Online Dating: A spectator chooses a celebrity date that isn't quite what she expects. A fun comedy routine.
Cartorn: Three spectators work together to draw a comic strip. Three large blank comic strip panels are on stage with you. Once the spectators have finished drawing...
When all is said and done ...
you are the lonely one!
A Do-as-I-Do effect that could not have happened!
The performer and a spectator freely select cards from packets that they each hold. Each time the cards are a perfect match. But in the end the audience is left with blank amazement! With influences from Patrick Page and Roy Walton, this is one you will keep!
MonuMental is a new multiple prediction effect that packs a punch. The routine is fully explained in a 40 minute video presentation that you can download to your computer. Includes two versions.
Also included on this video is Beyond. A spirit writing effect where a spectator initials all six sides of three blank business cards. Despite this, a message or prediction magically appears on one of the sides while he is holding the cards. And he can keep this as a memento. See demo on your left.
Video format is WMV and requires Media Player, Media Player Classic, or any other program that will...
